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The body clock and sleep

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Is There a Third Photo Receptor?

It took ten years to persuade vision group there's something else in the eye. And that third er photo reserter does something important called intrainment, which is it re correct corrects, continually corrects. If hou went into a cave for three months, that 11 minutes would accumulate an accumulateinccu and you are completely out of sin with the astronomical day. In nursing home environment where people aren't exposed to very much natural light, they can get this drifting. But if you increase the amount of light in the nurse home environment, you can stabilize sleep wake patterns. For example, in mild dimentia, you can actually prove improved cognition.

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